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Description

This data set contains return energy waveform data over Alaska and Western Canada measured by the NASA Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS), an airborne lidar scanning laser altimeter. The data were collected as part of NASA's Terrestrial Ecology Program campaign, the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE).

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms
AIRCRAFT ,
B-200 ,
C-130 ,
DC-8 ,
G-V ,
HU-25C ,
P-3B ,
RQ-4
Instruments
ALTIMETERS ,
LASERS ,
LVIS
Projects
ABoVE ,
LVIS
Spatial Extent

N: 72 S: 48 E: -104 W: -158

Spatial Reference System(s)
Multiple EPSG codes (see User Guide)
Location
ALASKA ,
CANADA
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2017-06-29 to 2017-07-17
Temporal Resolution
Varies
Concept ID
C3151579815-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
1051
Processing Level
1B
Published
Science Keywords
Sensor Counts

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Blair, J., & Hofton, M. (2018). ABoVE LVIS L1B Geolocated Return Energy Waveforms, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/UMRAWS57QAFU Date Accessed: 2026-09-28

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Phenology and Plant Functional Type Link Optical Properties of Vegetation Canopies to Patterns of Vertical Vegetation Complexity
  • Jurayj, Duncan, Bowers, Rebecca, Fayne, Jessica V.
The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys
  • Miller, Charles E., Griffith, Peter C., Hoy, Elizabeth, Pinto, Naiara S., Lou, Yunling, Hensley, Scott, Chapman, Bruce D., Baltzer, Jennifer, Bakian-Dogaheh, Kazem, Bolton, W. Robert, Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura, Chen, Richard H., Choe, Byung-Hun, Clayton, Leah K., Douglas, Thomas A., French, Nancy, Holloway, Jean E., Hong, Gang, Huang, Lingcao, Iwahana, Go, Jenkins, Liza, Kimball, John S., Loboda, Tatiana, Mack, Michelle, Marsh, Philip, Michaelides, Roger J., Moghaddam, Mahta, Parsekian, Andrew, Schaefer, Kevin, Siqueira, Paul R., Singh, Debjani, Tabatabaeenejad, Alireza, Turetsky, Merritt, Touzi, Ridha, Wig, Elizabeth, Wilson, Cathy J., Wilson, Paul, Wullschleger, Stan D., Yi, Yonghong, Zebker, Howard A., Zhang, Yu, Zhao, Yuhuan, Goetz, Scott J.
An overview of ABoVE airborne campaign data acquisitions and science opportunities
  • Miller, C E, Griffith, P C, Goetz, S J, Hoy, E E, Pinto, N, McCubbin, I B, Thorpe, A K, Hofton, M, Hodkinson, D, Hansen, C, Woods, J, Larson, E, Kasischke, E S, Margolis, H A
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